8+Online+Safety+and+Copyright+Statement

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rss url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/netlingoblog" link="true" number="10" ||  || Online Safety Statistics: Parents if you don't know about the need to protect your kids online, keep reading...** Fortunately research shows that adults are catching up with kids in the use of text messaging. In 2006-2008, texting by adults ages 45 to 54 increased 130 percent. Half of texting adults say they started sending messages so they could communicate with their children. // Source: //[|//http://www.netlingo.com/tips/online-safety-statistics.php//] ||  ||   ||
 * 95% of parents didn't recognize the lingo kids use to let people know that their parents are watching
 * 89% of sexual solicitations are made in either chat rooms or Instant Messages
 * 20% of children age 10-17 have been solicited sexually online; that's 1 out of every 5 kids
 * 75% of youth who received an online sexual solicitation did not tell a parent
 * One third of kids have been contacted by a stranger and half of these were considered inappropriate
 * 81% of parents of online youth say that kids aren't careful enough when giving out information about themselves online
 * 76% of parents don't have rules about what their kids can do on the computer
 * 65% of parents believe that kids do things online that they wouldn't want their parents to know about
 * 4,000,000 children are posting content to the Web everyday
 * 15,000,000 youth use Instant Messaging
 * 9 out of 10 parents will never know that any inappropriate contact has occurred
 * 14% have actually met face to face with a person they have met on the Internet
 * 1 out of 17 kids have been harassed, threatened, or bullied
 * Nearly three-quarters (73%) of online teens believe that someone their age is most likely to be approached by someone unknown to them online as opposed to offline
 * When asked how they responded the last time they were contacted online by a complete stranger, just 3% of online teens said they told and adult or authority figure
 * Most kids will not report inappropriate Internet contact to their parents because they are afraid of losing Internet privileges
 * 61% of 13-17 yr olds have a personal profile on social networking sites
 * 44% of online teens with profiles like Facebook and Myspace have been contacted by a stranger, compared with 16 percent of those without profiles.
 * 71% have reported receiving messages from someone they do not know
 * 45% have been asked for personal info from people they do not know
 * 48% of 16-17 yr olds report that their parents know "very little" or "nothing" about their online activities
 * MySpace deletes 25,000 profiles weekly of users who don't meet the site's 14-year-old minimum age requirement